Reformat displayed text to facilitate reading

Reformat text using CSS or other methods to make it more easily readable, both by human readers and by screen readers. This feature may also remove images and other distractions.

Related RtF projects and Discussion Groups

• Blindness and Low Vision Discussion Group (BLVDG)

Discussion by Disabilities (Benefits & Preferred Behaviors)

Blind & Low Vision

• Reformatting text can make it easier to read with low vision, and can also make it easier to read and understand with a machine screen reader.

Cognitive

• Certain text formatting methods, such as breaking up lines or staggering text in certain ways, may be easier to read.

Existing Products

Please note that these products are not necessarily endorsed by RtF, but represent the range of available options.

Open Source and free

These products are free and their source code may be modified with few restrictions.

• Web Access Gateway - U.of Cambridge, Silas Brown

Free, not necessarily open source

These products are free to use, but may have strict restrictions on viewing and modifying source code.

• Accessibility Internet (ai) Browser for Multimedia - IBM
• MathPlayer - Design Science
• WebVisum - WebVisum
• TidyRead
• Readability - Arc90

Commercial, with free trial

• Live Ink - Walker Reading Technologies

Commercial, no free trial

These products must be purchased to be used, and did not offer free trials at the time of posting.

• PnC Net, Email, Memo - JBliss
• WebAdapt2Me - IBM